circusctl add --start testcase

test_circusctl.py

import subprocess
import sys
import time

from circus.tests.support import TestCircus


class TestCommandline(TestCircus):

    def setUp(self):
        super(TestCommandline, self).setUp()
        self.dummy_process = 'circus.tests.test_arbiter.run_dummy'
        self.test_file = self._run_circus(self.dummy_process)

    def run_ctl(self, args):
        cmd = ['circusctl']
        proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd + args.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
        # use proc.communicate, if we need to handle lots of output
        while proc.returncode is None:
            time.sleep(0.1)
            proc.poll()

        return proc.stdout.read().strip()

    def test_add(self):
        output = self.run_ctl('add test2 "generic.py %s"' % self.dummy_process)
        self.assertEqual(output, 'ok')
        output = self.run_ctl('status test2')
        self.assertEqual(output, 'stopped')

    def test_add_start(self):
        output = self.run_ctl('add --start test2 "generic.py %s"' % self.dummy_process)
        self.assertEqual(output, 'ok')
        output = self.run_ctl('status test2')
        self.assertEqual(output, 'started')